It is customary to say something complimentary about a departing PM but the Tory leader couldn’t meet the moment

What a brutish business politics is. Sir Keir accepted his fate with reluctant grace but towards the end the understated, bitten-back Englishness of it all became a little too…

Before the Prime Minister could reply, the Speaker intervened to make a reasonable point about the language Kemi Badenoch was using

It is customary to say something complimentary about a departing PM but the Tory leader couldn’t meet the moment

On Monday, shortly after he had announced his resignation, Keir Starmer received a text message from Kemi Badenoch.